Men's Golf Set To Host Some Of The Nation's Best Starting Sunday

Sunday, March 1

Southern Highlands Golf Club - Las Vegas, Nevada

University of Nevada Las Vegas

Southern Highlands Collegiate

2/29/2020 9:32:00 AM | Men's Golf

15-team Southern Highlands Collegiate includes each of the top-five ranked teams in the country and nine of the top 25.

LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - Many of the nation's top collegiate golf programs will showcase their talent starting Sunday at the Southern Highlands Collegiate, will will take place March 1-3, at Southern Highlands Golf Club in Las Vegas (par 72, 7,510 yards).

The public is encouraged to attend the tournament and admission is free for this prestigious event that annually lures the country's best college golf teams and each year ranks at or near the top of the collegiate golf schedule in terms of strength of field.

LIVE STREAMING: For the second time, the Southern Highlands Collegiate will feature exclusive livestream coverage. College Golf Live will produce featured group coverage of the final round from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, which may be accessed for free by clicking here. It will also be available on the home page of Golfstat.com and on Twitter: @CollegeGolfLive.

PGA TOUR EXEMPTION: Also for the second straight year, the individual champion of the SHC will receive an exemption into the PGA Tour's Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, which will take place Oct. 8-11 at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas.

THE FIELD: The 15-team field includes each of the nation's top-five ranked teams according to Golfweek and nine of the top 25: No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 2 Georgia Tech, No. 3 Pepperdine, No. 4 Texas, No. 5 Duke, No. 7 Texas Tech, No. 13 SMU, No. 19 Georgia, No. 22 Florida, New Mexico, Southern California, TCU, UCF, UCLA and host UNLV.

THE FORMAT: The 54-hole stroke-play tournament will consist of 18 holes each day. Teams will play five players with the low four scores each day counted for the team total. Individual ties will be broken by sudden-death playoff.

TEE TIMES: Each day will begin off the No. 1 and No. 10 tees at 9 a.m.

THE LINEUP: Competing for UNLV will be junior Jack Trent, sophomore David Rauch, senior Justin Kim, freshman George Leigh and freshman Falko Hanisch. Freshman Jack Kozlowski and junior J.J. Gresco will compete as individuals.

UNLV AT THE SHC: UNLV has won the team title at the Southern Highlands Collegiate in seven of the last 15 years and has had an individual claim medalist honors four times in the last 17 years.

LAST YEAR AT THE SHC: UNLV finished tied for seventh as a team at the 2019 Southern Highlands Collegiate with a score of 1-under 863. Trent, who finished 10-under, earned medalist honors after winning a playoff with Texas' Cole Hammer. Trent went on to make the cut at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, finishing in a tie for 29th as an amateur. Oklahoma was the 2019 SHC's team champion at 14-under.

LAST OUTING: UNLV finished tied for fifth at the John Burns Intercollegiate in Hawaii, on Feb. 22. Prior to that, the Rebels opened their spring season at the Sea Best Intercollegiate in Florida in early February.

THIS SEASON: UNLV has recorded two top-five finishes as a team this season. The Rebels' best individual showing has been two fourth-place ties for Trent (OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational, William H. Tucker Intercollegiate).

LIVE SCORING: Scores from the SHC may be tracked off a link at UNLVRebels.com or by clicking here.

SOCIAL MEDIA: Follow @SHCollegiate and @UNLVGolf on Twitter for the most up-to-date information from the tournament.

REBEL NOTES:
• UNLV lost Mountain West Golfer of the Year and All-America Scholar Harry Hall to graduation following last season. He competed at the prestigious Walker Cup in September, becoming just the third Rebel in program history to be invited.
• The Rebels have welcomed four new players to this year's roster.
• Last year's team appeared in a NCAA-record 31st straight regional and advanced to the national finals where it finished in the top 20.
• Trent and Rauch are UNLV's returning All-Mountain West performers. Trent is on the 2020 Ben Hogan Award Watch List.
• Kim, who turned in UNLV's best individual finish at the NCAA Finals last season, was also named an All-America Scholar.
• This year marks head coach Dwaine Knight's 33rd season leading the Rebel program.